Boosting for green open access Why, Who and How?
Oulu OpenCon 7.12.2016 Pekka Olsbo Head of Publishing Open Science Centre University of Jyväskylä
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Open Access – what?
Just to make sure…
Open access means that a publication is freely
available on the public internet permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
Three ways to open access
Gold OA: Open access journals, which may or may not charge a publishing fee.
Hybrid OA: Subscription based journals, where authors can buy their own articles open access.
Self-archiving, also known as green open access, refers to the practice of depositing articles in an institutional repository or a subject repository. An embargo period is usually needed.
Why Green Open Access?
The Finnish perspective
In May 2016 the European Union announced that
"all scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020".
In Finland all researchers are encouraged (forced) to publish in journals listed in
Finnish Publication forum
How many open access journals do you think there are listed in Finnish Publication forum?
Why Green Open Access?
Publication forum
Level 3 (the highest level): 1,5 % OA-journals Level 2: 1,3 % OA-journals
Level 1 (the lowest): 4,5 % OA-journals
There is absolutely no way that Finland could in any way base it´s development of open science in gold open
access!
I won´t even start to talk about the expenses…
Why Green Open Access?
… but if all Finnish research papers were published in OA-journals with just an
average apc of 1200 € it would mean 20 000 000 €/year.
Of course we have to support OA-
publishing, but alone it is not a solution … to anything.
We need green open access (self- archiving) because: it´s cheap, it´s efficient, it´s easy, it doesn´t require (almost) anything from researchers, it changes the world…
Green OA impacts!
Archambault et al 2016; doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0159614
Who´s business is green open access?
Term self-archiving hints that it is the author, who should take care of green OA.
BUT it is not …
University libraries are the key players and librarians should take care of everything.
Authors just take care of their files.
Our experience suggest that in order to succeed, practices of green oa has to be centralized.
Situation in Finland
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3196
7970
2013 2014 2015 2016
Green OA in Finland 2013-2016
What has happened?
A big step has been taken in creation of centralized services; population of CRIS
(research information system) and process of self- archiving are now libraries´ business.
Researchers don´t have to worry about reporting of their publications or the green open access – it is taken care of on their behalf.
But this is reality only in few universities.
So is everything ok and openness of Finnish research is on it´s way up?
No.
What is being deposited?
0,00 10,00 20,00 30,00 40,00 50,00 60,00 70,00 80,00 90,00 100,00
Helda JYX AaltoDoc TamPub
publisher pdf final draft pre print
If final drafts are not deposited…
Process of self-archiving is not working the way it should.
We don´t get anything from the authors.
We just deposit what is already open somewhere else.
We don´t boost for open access.
Openness in Finland does not increase.
We are not doing what we should do!
Development in University of Jyväskylä
35%
39%
47% 48% 50%
JAN. 2015 APRIL 2015 FEB. 2016 JULY 2016 DEC. 2016
Openness all publications
Development in University of Jyväskylä
18%
23%
32%
39%
42%
JAN. 2015 APRIL 2015 FEB. 2016 JULY 2016 DEC. 2016
Green OA all publications
Development in University of Jyväskylä
32%
36%
46%
49%
52%
JAN. 2015 APRIL 2015 FEB. 2016 JULY 2016 DEC. 2016
Openness peer rev.
Development in University of Jyväskylä
16%
27%
36%
45%
48%
JAN. 2015 APRIL 2015 FEB. 2016 JULY 2016 DEC. 2016
Green OA peer rev.
Conclusions or lessons learned – the how part
Processes of CRIS and repository –
cataloguing and publishing need to work together.
Interoperability of IT-systems. A necessity.
Question of expertise, learning process, growth of knowledge work of a small group of specialists.
Constant communication with researchers - show them benefits, make them think.
Keep it simple.
Thank You Questions??
Contact
Pekka Olsbo
Open Science Centre University of Jyväskylä pekka.olsbo at jyu.fi
